The Radical Isaac

By Adi Mahalel
Subjects: Jewish Studies
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Flesh of My Flesh

By Ilana Szobel
Subjects: Literature
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

Possessed Voices

By Ruthie Abeliovich
Subjects: Literature
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

The Infrahuman

By Noam Pines
Subjects: Jewish Studies
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Poets on the Edge

Edited and translated by Tsipi Keller
Introduction by Aminadav Dykman
Subjects: General Interest
Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.

Dreaming the Actual

Edited by Miriyam Glazer
Introduction by Miriyam Glazer
Subjects: General Interest
Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.

Between Exile and Return

By Anne Golomb Hoffman
Subjects: Jewish Studies
Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates ...